1 ~ sb (with sth/sb) if a person or thing impresses you, you feel admiration for them or it:
[VN] We interviewed a number of candidates but none of them impressed us. * She was suitably impressed (= as impressed as sb had hoped) with the painting. * He impressed her with his sincerity. * His sincerity impressed her. * The Grand Canyon never fails to impress people. * [V] The Grand Canyon never fails to impress. * [VNthat] It impressed me that she remembered my name.
seealsoIMPRESSIVE
2 [VN] ~ sth on / upon sb (formal) to make sb understand how important, serious etc. sth is by emphasizing it:
He impressed on us the need for immediate action. * Their responsibilities are impressed on them during training.
3 [VN] ~ sth / itself on / upon sth (formal) to have a great effect on sth, especially sb's mind, imagination, etc:
Her words impressed themselves on my memory.
seealsoUNIMPRESSED
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for impress is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is impress a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, impress is tagged as verb.
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